MD 181 Joe Anderson and Paul Hiller

Joe and I discuss tips on how to show the economic value of the lubrication program for your maintenance and reliability departments. We then chat with Paul Hiller on making sense of the ICML 55.1 standard.

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TMC S3:E20 TMCP Special: Community Question Round-Up No.4 with Ramesh and Ryan

TMCP Special: Community Question Round-Up No.4 with Ramesh and Ryan

In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Podcast, we’ll be doing another Community Question Round-Up, where we review questions submitted by members in our Maintenance Community Slack group and hear insight from one of our Maintenance Experts in Residence, the Reliability Sherpa himself — Ramesh Gulati. Listen today!
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TLC 017 Leadership Connection Interview with William Bower

Leadership Connection Interview William Bower

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, Interview’s reliability leader Will Bower in Episode 17 of this series. Will is the Director of Services with Maintain CM based in the United Kingdom. Will strives to help engineering mangers achieve reliability excellence through every channel that he can.

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QDD 021 Designing Specs for QA

Designing Specs for QA

Creating specs for suppliers and producers is generally at the forefront of our thoughts about the activity. But, it’s also important to design for our QA friends, too, for inspection.

We talk about what acceptance sampling is all about. We also step through a thought process for identifying and creating design features for inspection using FMEA.

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MD 180 Lubrication Sustainability, Benchmarking and Certification with Fluitec

The word ‘sustainability’ is widely used and yet not always well understood. We chat with Pierre Vanderkelen, CEO at Fluitec about the different types of corporate ‘sustainabilities’ as well as the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and how your company can advance each one.

We then chat with Greg Livingstone, Chief Innovation Officer at Fluitec about the several interesting findings on how turbine oils degrade, what chemistries provide optimum performance, and hints to the future of turbine oil formulations as well as ICML’s Varnish and Deposit Identification and Measurement (VIM) certification.

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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod

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277 – Adoption of Mobility with Ryan Chan

Welcome Ryan Chan back to the podcast. Today we will discuss mobile work solutions.

In this episode we covered:

What are mobile work solutions?
Why would organizations want to leverage mobile work solutions?
Why haven’t many organizations implemented mobile solutions?

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SOR 685 Demonstration Testing

Demonstration Testing

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Chris and Fred discuss the whole idea of ‘demonstration testing’ … and how it may be ‘chronically’ overused or at least misunderstood. Heard of ‘demonstration testing’ and need to learn more?
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SOR 684 Perils of Assuming a Model

Perils of Assuming a Model

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Chris and Fred discuss some of the issues you face when selecting a (potentially incorrect) model. And how much uncertainty still remains when you do. Hate statistics … but need a nice and easy introduction to this sort of stuff?
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TMC S3:E19 Ricky Smith

Ricky Smith

In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Podcast, we have Ricky Smith, Expert in Residence at UpKeep, back on the show! Ryan and Ricky discuss Maintenance Process Mapping — what it is, why it’s necessary, and how it can improve an organization’s maintenance function. Listen today!
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TLC 016 Leadership Connection Interview with Scott Brown

Leadership Connection Interview Scott Brown

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Scott Brown in Episode 16 of this series. Scott joined Shell in 2006 following eight years as an Aeromedical Evacuation Officer and Blackhawk Maintenance Test Pilot in the U.S. Army. Scott started as a Reliability Engineer on Shell’s Auger Tension Leg Platform (TLP) in the Gulf of Mexico, analyzing unscheduled production deferment and equipment failure history to determine overall risk and economic potential of improvement scenarios. He facilitated numerous root cause analysis investigations, utilizing various RCA methods such as 5-Why, Apollo Reality Charting, and Causal Learning.

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QDD 020 Every Failure is a Gift

Every Failure is a Gift

When designs fail we can take on damaging mindsets while we’re deciding our next steps, and this can lead us to bad decisions. We explore this and give some examples of pitfalls. We also talk about what to do within the design-realm to prepare for and combat those mindsets. Finally, I share my mantra when designing activities get tough with failures.

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MD 179 Addressing Leadership Challenges with Robert Kalwarowsky

Changing leadership is hard, both within yourself and within an organization.

In this weeks episode we catch up with Rob Kalwarowsky and discuss leadership and how we can affect change both for ourselves and for our organizations.

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Robert Kalwarowsky – https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kalwarowsky/

https://highperformancenarrative.com/

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276 – Driving Asset Answers with Suspect Data with Manjish and Yanpei

Driving Asset Answers with Suspect Data with Manjish and Yanpei

Welcome our guests to the podcast. We are going to discuss Asset Answers in today’s episode. However, briefly about our guests:

Yanpei has a background in telecom and smart grid. Currently is working as a product leader at Asset Answers.

Manjish is the service lead for Asset Answers and has been in the maintenance and reliability for 15 years building CMMS and analytic software on top of the CMMS)

In this episode we covered:

Many organizations have data but not information. Have you witnessed such?
What are the main causes of suspect data?
Does the data have to be perfect to start?

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SOR 683 Public Reporting of Failures

Public Reporting of Failures

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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenges of failure analysis and reporting of the root cause of electronic system failures and corrective action to the consuming public
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SOR 682 Heroes versus Prevention

Heroes versus Prevention

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Kirk and Fred discussing why the service departments will get more accolades for repairing failed systems than those in design department that find and prevent failures during development.
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